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1. A SHEET INSPECTING AND SHORTING MECHANISM COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION,CONVEYING MEANS FOR ADVANCING SHEET MATERIAL THROUGH AN INSPECTINGSTATION AND THEN ALONG A COURSE WHICH INCLUDES ONE SORTING STATION AFTERANOTHER, INSPECTING MEANS AT THE INSPECTING STATION CONSTRUCTED ANDARRANGED AUTOMATICALLY TO SCAN EACH SHEET LENGTH AS IT IS ADVANCED ATHIGH SPEED AND TO DEVELOP NO CLASSIFICATION SIGNAL IF A SHEET LENGTHFALLS IN THE CATEGORY OF FIRST QUALITY, BUT TO DEVELOP DISTINCTIVECLASSIFICATION CONTROL SIGNALS FOR SHEET CATEGORIES OF UNACCEPTABLEQUALITY AND OF ACCEPTABLE QUALITY OTHER THAN FIRST QUALITY, A RECEIVERFOR SHEETS OF THE UNACCEPTABLE CATEGORY, COLLECTORS FOR THE DIFFERENTCATEGORIES OF ACCEPTABLE SHEETS INCLUDING ONE MORE COLLECTOR THAN THEREARE ACCEPTABLE CATEGORIES SO THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AT LEAST TWOACTIVE COLLECTORS AND AN INACTIVE COLLECTOR, SORTING FLIPPERS ASSOCIATEDWITH THE RESPECTIVE COLLECTORS AND RESPONSIVE TO THE CLASSIFICATIONCONTROL SIGNALS, MEANS INSTANTANEOUSLY SETTABLE TO SO DETERMINE THERESPONSES OF THE RESPECTIVE SORTING FLIPPERS TO THE CLASSIFICATIONCONTROL SIGNALS THAT ANY ONE OF THE COLLECTORS MAY BE MADE THE COLLECTOROF FIRST QUALITY SHEETS, ANY ONE OF THE COLLECTORS MAY BE MADE THECOLLECTOR OF A CATEGORY OF ACCEPTABLE SHEETS OF LESS THAN FIRST QUALITY,AND ANY ONE OF THE COLLECTORS MAY BE RENDERED INACTIVE FOR THE PURPOSEOF UNLOADING AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING HELD IN RESERVE AS ANIMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT FOR ANY ONE OF THE ACTIVE COLLECTORS WITHOUTINTERRUPTING OR RETARDING THE OPERATION OF THE MECHANISM, THECONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT BEING SUCH THAT WHEN A SETTING HAS BEENEFFECTED THE SORTING FLIPPER ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLLECTOR ASSIGNED THEDUTY OF COLLECTING FIRST QUALITY SHEETS WILL BE NORMALLY OPEN, BUT INRESPONSE TO EACH CLASSIFICATION CONTROL SIGNAL WILL BE TEMPORARILYCLOSED AT A PROPER TIME AND FOR A SUFFICIENT PERIOD TO CAUSE THE SHEETRESPONSIBLE FOR SAID SIGNAL TO BE EXCLUDED, THE SORTING FLIPPERASSOCIATED WITH A COLLECTOR ASSIGNED THE DUTY OF COLLECTING A LOWERCATEGORY OF ACCEPTABLE SHEETS WILL BE NORMALLY CLOSED, BUT IN RESPONSETO THE CLASSIFICATION CONTROL SIGNAL OF THAT CATEGORY WILL BETEMPORARILY OPENED AT A PROPER TIME AND FOR A SUFFICIENT PERIOD TO CAUSETHE SHEET RESPONSIBLE FOR SAID SIGNAL TO BE ACCEPTED, AND THE SORTINGFLIPPER ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESERVE OR INACTIVE COLLECTOR WILL BEMAINTAINED CLOSED UNTIL SAID RESERVE COLLECTOR REPLACES ONE OF THE OTHEROF SAID COLLECTORS, EACH COLLECTOR INCLUDING A COLLECTING DRUM ROTATINGAT CONSTANT SPEED ON WHICH SHEET PACKETS OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OFSHEETS ARE ACCUMULATED, A TRANSFER DRUM, DISPOSED IN RECEIVING RELATIONTO THE COLLECTING DRUM, TO WHICH THE SHEET PACKETS ARE DELIVERED FROMTHE COLLECTING DRUM, A COOPERATIVE CONVEYOR INCLUDING TAPES WHOSE ACTIVERUNS BEAR IN PART AGAINST THE TRANSFER DRUM AND WHICH ARE DRIVEN BY THETRANSFER DRUM, A SHEET COUNTER FOR EFFECTING A COUNT OF SHEETS DELIVEREDTO THE COLLECTING DRUM, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE SHEET COUNTER FORINITIATING DELIVERY OF A SHEET PACKET TO THE TRANSFER DRUM WHEN THECOUNT REACHES THE PRESCRIBED NUMBER, A CONTROLLABLE HEIGHT SHEETSTACKING TABLE DISPOSED IN RECEIVING RELATION TO THE TRANSFER DRUM FORRECEIVING THE PACKETS IN STACKED RELATION FROM THE TRANSFER DRUM, ANDMEANS POSITIVELY DRIVING THE TRANSFER DRUM AT THE PERIPHERAL SPEED OFTHE COLLECTING DRUM THROUGHOUT SAID DELIVERY TO THE TRANSFER DRUM ANDAUTOMATICALLY EFFECTIVE WHEN THE DELIVERY OF A PACKET OF SHEETS TO THETRANSFER DRUM HAS BEEN COMPLETED TO SO MODIFY THE TRANSFER DRUM SPEEDTHAT THE TRANSFER DRUM AND COOPERATIVE TAPES WHICH BEAR IN PART AGAINSTTHE TRANSFER DRUM ARE PUT THROUGH A PROGRAMMED SLOWDOWN AND RESTORATIONCYCLE DURING WHICH THE TRANSFER DRUM AND COOPERATIVE TAPES WHICH BEAR INPART AGAINST THE TRANSFER DRUM ADVANCE THE SHEET PACKET AT HIGH VELOCITYONTO THE SHEET STACKING TABLE AND THEN SLOW DOWN PROGRESSIVELY UNTIL THEPACKET OF SHEETS IS DISCHARGED TO SAID STACKING TABLE AT A RELATIVELYLOW VELOCITY, THE TRANSFER DRUM DRIVE THEN PROGRESSIVELY RESTORING THESPEED OF THE TRANSFER DRUM AND THE COOPERATIVE TAPES WHICH BEAR IN PARTAGAINST THE TRANSFER DRUM TO THE COLLECTING DRUM SPEED BY A TIME NOLATER THAN THAT AT WHICH A NEXT ACCUMULATED PACKET OF SHEETS ON THECOLLECTING DRUM BECOMES READY FOR DELIVERY TO THE TRANSFER DRUM.